After the Montreal MassacreA film by Gerry Rogers, 1990, 27 min., ColorOn December 6, 1989, a gunman entered the engineering building at the University of Montreal and killed fourteen women. This forceful, moving document...

A Better ManA film by Attiya Khan & Lawrence Jackman, 2017, 79 min., ColorFrom Executive Producer Sarah Polley, A BETTER MAN follows a series of intimate conversations between a woman and her former boyfriend when she confro...

Breaking SilenceA film by Nadya Ali, 2017, 40 min., ColorThree Muslim women share their stories of sexual assault—and, in a deeply personal way, they challenge the stigma that has long suppressed the voice o...

DreamcatcherA film by Kim Longinotto, 2015, 98 min., Color“You got any dreams you wanna catch?” Sundance award winner DREAMCATCHER takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through t...

Faces of HarassmentA film by Paula Sacchetta, 2016, 82 min., ColorFACES OF HARASSMENT is an experiment in storytelling about trauma. When the hashtag #MyFirstHarassment swept across Brazil, it showed not only the wid...

How Nice to See You AliveA film by Lucia Murat, 1989, 100 min., ColorOn March 31, 1964, a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government. Four years later, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systema...

In the Name of the FamilyA Film by Shelley Saywell, 2010, 60 min., ColorSchoolgirl Aqsa Parvez, sisters Amina and Sarah Said, and college student Fauzia Muhammad were all North American teenagers—and victims of premeditate...

India's DaughterA film by Leslee Udwin, 2015, 62 min., ColorINDIA’S DAUGHTER is the powerful story of the 2012, brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical student, who later died from her injuries...

Invoking JusticeA film by Deepa Dhanraj, 2011, 85 min., ColorIn Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present...

A Jury of Her PeersA film by Sally Heckel, 1980, 30 min., ColorOn a desolate American farm in the early 1900's, a farmer is found murdered in his sleep and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A powerful adapt...

Life After MansonA film by Olivia Klaus, 2014, 25 min., Color/BWLife After Manson is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most infamous crimes and notorious killers. At 21 years old, Patricia Krenwinkel callo...

MachoA film by Lucinda Broadbent, 2000, 26 min., ColorIn 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...

Maria in Nobody's LandA film by Marcela Zamora Chamorro, 2010, 86 min., ColorMARIA IN NOBODY'S LAND is an unprecedented and intimate look at the illegal and extremely dangerous journey of three Salvadoran women to the US. Doña ...

The Price of SexA film by Mimi Chakarova, 2011, 73 min., ColorAn unprecedented and compelling inquiry, THE PRICE OF SEX sheds light on the underground criminal network of human trafficking and experiences of traf...

PrimasA film by Laura Bari, 2018, 95 min., ColorPRIMAS is an evocative and poetic portrait of two Argentine teenage cousins who come of age together as they overcome the heinous acts of violence tha...

Private ViolenceA film directed and produced by Cynthia Hill, 2014, 77 min., ColorEmmyTM Nominated PRIVATE VIOLENCE explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for...

Quest for HonorA film by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, 2009, 63 min., ColorA searing and necessary documentary, QUEST FOR HONOR, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy® Award nominati...

Rate It XDirected by Lucy Winer and Paula De Koenigsberg, 1986, 93 min., ColorWhat do men really think of women? This provocative, highly acclaimed documentary provides an unflinching look at sexism in America. A series of distu...

Sari RedA film by Pratibha Parmar, 1988, 12 min., ColorMade in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, SARI RED eloquently examines the effect of ...

Saving FaceA film by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 2011, 40 min., ColorWinner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary (Short Subject), SAVING FACE is a harshly realistic view of violence against women in South Asia - a...

A Thousand Girls Like MeA film by Sahra Mani, 2018, 80 min., ColorA THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME is an awe-inspiring vérité documentary that tells the story of a young Afghan woman’s brave fight to seek justice and protect...

The Vienna TribunalA film by Gerry Rogers, 1994, 48 min., ColorHighlights of moving personal testimonies at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights-held in conjunction with U.N. World Conference on Hum...

Weapon of WarA film by Femke & Ilse van Velzen, 2009, 59 min., ColorIn no other country has sexual violence matched the scale of brutality reached in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During nearly two decades of...

What Doesn't Kill MeA film by Rachel Meyrick, 2017, 82 min., ColorEvery day, 5 million children in the U.S. either witness or are victims of domestic violence. In the current system, a judge is more likely to award c...

What Happened to HerA film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, 2016, 15 min., ColorWHAT HAPPENED TO HER is a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. Interspersing found footage from fil...

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